Abstract
The cavity design of a surface-emitting laser (SEL) is crucial to device performance. In addition several properties of the laser and its constituent materials can be determined by probing the passive cavity itself. Specifically, the longitudinal mode behavior of passive SEL cavities can be used to measure the thermal dependence of the refractive index and the free-carrier absorption of the cavity materials.
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